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Florida Midwifery Legislation

The bills below are from the 2020 Florida legislative session — preserved here for the record. They are not currently active legislation. Use the contact tools further down to engage your legislators when a current bill is in play.

Updated February 3, 2020

These were bills filed in the Florida House and Senate intended to provide protections to Florida mothers and their children. The links go to the official bill records and remain useful as historical reference and as templates for the kind of language we'd hope to see in future sessions.

2020 session — historical

Know of a current Florida bill relevant to mother-and-child safety that should be tracked here? Please send it in and we will add it.

How to contact your Florida legislator

  1. Find your district at flsenate.gov/Senators/Find and myfloridahouse.gov/FindYourRepresentative.
  2. Each office page lists a phone number and an email contact form.
  3. Identify yourself as a constituent and reference the bill number.
  4. If you have lost a child or know someone who has, you may share that — your story is your authority.

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